Day 1 - Puerto Mogan to Antigua

In true Newtsville style we left Puerto Mogan at 10am, sailed/ motored for 45mins and then turned back!! The batteries weren't charging properly and this need to be fixed before we started crossing. Back in the marina Jonny fixed a loose wire on the alternator and we were ready to leave again at 12pm.

The winds were light initially before we got into the wind acceleration zone where we we doing 7 knots with just the main up ... we were really pleased with this til we radioed a boat behind us and they were moving quite slowly - only doing 10.5 knots - they were 3 times the length of us though!!

The wind strength died again night so we were only doing about 3/4 knots. A few ships were sighted and Jonny saw some orange parachute flares going off but got no response to his radio calls asking if anyone needed assistance??!!

Just before lunchtime we got becalmed and then had a fridge disaster .. between the 3 of us we managed to get the fridge lid wedged and couldn't get it up... luckily Jonny has managed to fix this and we still have a fridge full of food to eat.

A slow and eventful first day - hopefully the next 20ish will be better!!

Distance traveled Day 1 - 100 miles